Cyber Resilience through Real-Time Threat Analysis in Information Security

This paper examines how cybersecurity is developing and how it relates to more conventional information security. Although information security and cyber security are sometimes used synonymously, this study contends that they are not the same. The concept of cyber security is explored, which goes beyond protecting information resources to include a wider variety of assets, including people [1]. Protecting information assets is the main goal of traditional information security, with consideration to the human element and how people fit into the security process. On the other hand, cyber security adds a new level of complexity, as people might unintentionally contribute to or become targets of cyberattacks. This aspect presents moral questions since it is becoming more widely accepted that society has a duty to protect weaker members of society, including children [1]. The study emphasizes how important cyber security is on a larger scale, with many countries creating plans and laws to counteract cyberattacks. Nevertheless, a lot of these sources frequently neglect to define the differences or the relationship between information security and cyber security [1]. The paper focus on differentiating between cybersecurity and information security on a larger scale. The study also highlights other areas of cybersecurity which includes defending people, social norms, and vital infrastructure from threats that arise from online in addition to information and technology protection. It contends that ethical issues and the human factor are becoming more and more important in protecting assets in the digital age, and that cyber security is a paradigm shift in this regard [1].

Insider threat detection approach for tobacco industry based on heterogeneous graph embedding

In the tobacco industry,insider employee attack is a thorny problem that is difficult to detect.To solve this issue,this paper proposes an insider threat detection method based on heterogeneous graph embedding.First,the interrelationships between logs are fully considered,and log entries are converted into heterogeneous graphs based on these relationships.Second,the heterogeneous graph embedding is adopted and each log entry is represented as a low-dimensional feature vector.Then,normal logs and malicious logs are classified into different clusters by clustering algorithm to identify malicious logs.Finally,the effectiveness and superiority of the method is verified through experiments on the CERT dataset.The experimental results show that this method has better performance compared to some baseline methods.

A Comparative Analysis of Cybersecurity Threat Taxonomies for Healthcare Organizations

Information technology is critical in coordinating patient records, smart devices, operations, and critical infrastructure in healthcare organizations, and their constantly changing digital environment, including suppliers, doctors, insurance providers, and regulatory agencies. This dependence on interdependent systems makes this sector vulnerable to various information technology risks. Such threats include common cybersecurity risks such as data breaches and malware attacks, unique problems occurring in healthcare settings such as unauthorized access to patient records, disruptions in services provided at medical facilities, and potential harm caused to patients due to the compromise of medical devices. The threat taxonomies, such as the Open Threat Taxonomy, NIST, or ENISA, are foundational frameworks for grasping and categorizing IT threats. However, these taxonomies were not specifically designed to deal with the complexities of the healthcare industry. The problem arises from the gap between these taxonomies’ general nature and the industry-specific threats and vulnerabilities that affect healthcare organizations. As a result, many healthcare institutions fail to holistically address and eliminate the unique risks related to confidentiality, integrity, and availability of patients’ data as well as critical systems used in healthcare. This paper aims to narrow this gap by carefully assessing these taxonomies to determine the frame-work best suited for addressing the threat environment in the healthcare sector.

Beyond Defense: Proactive Approaches to Disaster Recovery and Threat Intelligence in Modern Enterprises

As cyber threats keep changing and business environments adapt, a comprehensive approach to disaster recovery involves more than just defensive measures. This research delves deep into the strategies required to respond to threats and anticipate and mitigate them proactively. Beginning with understanding the critical need for a layered defense and the intricacies of the attacker’s journey, the research offers insights into specialized defense techniques, emphasizing the importance of timely and strategic responses during incidents. Risk management is brought to the forefront, underscoring businesses’ need to adopt mature risk assessment practices and understand the potential risk impact areas. Additionally, the value of threat intelligence is explored, shedding light on the importance of active engagement within sharing communities and the vigilant observation of adversary motivations. “Beyond Defense: Proactive Approaches to Disaster Recovery and Threat Intelligence in Modern Enterprises” is a comprehensive guide for organizations aiming to fortify their cybersecurity posture, marrying best practices in proactive and reactive measures in the ever-challenging digital realm.

Ground threat prediction-based path planning of unmanned autonomous helicopter using hybrid enhanced artificial bee colony algorithm

Unmanned autonomous helicopter(UAH)path planning problem is an important component of the UAH mission planning system.Aiming to reduce the influence of non-complete ground threat information on UAH path planning,a ground threat prediction-based path planning method is proposed based on artificial bee colony(ABC)algorithm by collaborative thinking strategy.Firstly,a dynamic threat distribution probability model is developed based on the characteristics of typical ground threats.The dynamic no-fly zone of the UAH is simulated and established by calculating the distribution probability of ground threats in real time.Then,a dynamic path planning method for UAH is designed in complex environment based on the real-time prediction of ground threats.By adding the collision warning mechanism to the path planning model,the flight path could be dynamically adjusted according to changing no-fly zones.Furthermore,a hybrid enhanced ABC algorithm is proposed based on collaborative thinking strategy.The proposed algorithm applies the leader-member thinking mechanism to guide the direction of population evolution,and reduces the negative impact of local optimal solutions caused by collaborative learning update strategy,which makes the optimization performance of ABC algorithm more controllable and efficient.Finally,simulation results verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed ground threat prediction path planning method.

A Review of Hybrid Cyber Threats Modelling and Detection Using Artificial Intelligence in IIoT

The Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT)has brought numerous benefits,such as improved efficiency,smart analytics,and increased automation.However,it also exposes connected devices,users,applications,and data generated to cyber security threats that need to be addressed.This work investigates hybrid cyber threats(HCTs),which are now working on an entirely new level with the increasingly adopted IIoT.This work focuses on emerging methods to model,detect,and defend against hybrid cyber attacks using machine learning(ML)techniques.Specifically,a novel ML-based HCT modelling and analysis framework was proposed,in which L1 regularisation and Random Forest were used to cluster features and analyse the importance and impact of each feature in both individual threats and HCTs.A grey relation analysis-based model was employed to construct the correlation between IIoT components and different threats.

Aerial target threat assessment based on gated recurrent unit and self-attention mechanism

Aerial threat assessment is a crucial link in modern air combat, whose result counts a great deal for commanders to make decisions. With the consideration that the existing threat assessment methods have difficulties in dealing with high dimensional time series target data, a threat assessment method based on self-attention mechanism and gated recurrent unit(SAGRU) is proposed. Firstly, a threat feature system including air combat situations and capability features is established. Moreover, a data augmentation process based on fractional Fourier transform(FRFT) is applied to extract more valuable information from time series situation features. Furthermore, aiming to capture key characteristics of battlefield evolution, a bidirectional GRU and SA mechanisms are designed for enhanced features.Subsequently, after the concatenation of the processed air combat situation and capability features, the target threat level will be predicted by fully connected neural layers and the softmax classifier. Finally, in order to validate this model, an air combat dataset generated by a combat simulation system is introduced for model training and testing. The comparison experiments show the proposed model has structural rationality and can perform threat assessment faster and more accurately than the other existing models based on deep learning.

Tackling the Existential Threats from Quantum Computers and AI

Although AI and quantum computing (QC) are fast emerging as key enablers of the future Internet, experts believe they pose an existential threat to humanity. Responding to the frenzied release of ChatGPT/GPT-4, thousands of alarmed tech leaders recently signed an open letter to pause AI research to prepare for the catastrophic threats to humanity from uncontrolled AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). Perceived as an “epistemological nightmare”, AGI is believed to be on the anvil with GPT-5. Two computing rules appear responsible for these risks. 1) Mandatory third-party permissions that allow computers to run applications at the expense of introducing vulnerabilities. 2) The Halting Problem of Turing-complete AI programming languages potentially renders AGI unstoppable. The double whammy of these inherent weaknesses remains invincible under the legacy systems. A recent cybersecurity breakthrough shows that banning all permissions reduces the computer attack surface to zero, delivering a new zero vulnerability computing (ZVC) paradigm. Deploying ZVC and blockchain, this paper formulates and supports a hypothesis: “Safe, secure, ethical, controllable AGI/QC is possible by conquering the two unassailable rules of computability.” Pursued by a European consortium, testing/proving the proposed hypothesis will have a groundbreaking impact on the future digital infrastructure when AGI/QC starts powering the 75 billion internet devices by 2025.

Assessment of Meteorological Threats to the Coordinated Search and Rescue of Unmanned/Manned Aircraft

The architecture and working principle of coordinated search and rescue system of unmanned/manned aircraft,which is composed of manned/unmanned aircraft and manned aircraft,were first introduced,and they can cooperate with each other to complete a search and rescue task.Secondly,a threat assessment method based on meteorological data was proposed,and potential meteorological threats,such as storms and rainfall,can be predicted by collecting and analyzing meteorological data.Finally,an experiment was carried out to evaluate the performance of the proposed method in different scenarios.The experimental results show that the coordinated search and rescue system of unmanned/manned aircraft can be used to effectively assess meteorological threats and provide accurate search and rescue guidance.

Systematic Literature Review on Cloud Computing Security: Threats and Mitigation Strategies

Cloud computing plays a significant role in modern information technology, providing organizations with numerous benefits, including flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency. However, it has become essential for organizations to ensure the security of their applications, data, and cloud-based networks to use cloud services effectively. This systematic literature review aims to determine the latest information regarding cloud computing security, with a specific emphasis on threats and mitigation strategies. Additionally, it highlights some common threats related to cloud computing security, such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, account hijacking, malware attacks, and data breaches. This research also explores some mitigation strategies, including security awareness training, vulnerability management, security information and event management (SIEM), identity and access management (IAM), and encryption techniques. It discusses emerging trends in cloud security, such as integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), serverless computing, and containerization, as well as the effectiveness of the shared responsibility model and its related challenges. The importance of user awareness and the impact of emerging technologies on cloud security have also been discussed in detail to mitigate security risks. A literature review of previous research and scholarly articles has also been conducted to provide insights regarding cloud computing security. It shows the need for continuous research and innovation to address emerging threats and maintain a security-conscious culture in the company.

An Effective Threat Detection Framework for Advanced Persistent Cyberattacks

Recently,with the normalization of non-face-to-face online environments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic,the possibility of cyberattacks through endpoints has increased.Numerous endpoint devices are managed meticulously to prevent cyberattacks and ensure timely responses to potential security threats.In particular,because telecommuting,telemedicine,and teleeducation are implemented in uncontrolled environments,attackers typically target vulnerable endpoints to acquire administrator rights or steal authentication information,and reports of endpoint attacks have been increasing considerably.Advanced persistent threats(APTs)using various novel variant malicious codes are a form of a sophisticated attack.However,conventional commercial antivirus and anti-malware systems that use signature-based attack detectionmethods cannot satisfactorily respond to such attacks.In this paper,we propose a method that expands the detection coverage inAPT attack environments.In this model,an open-source threat detector and log collector are used synergistically to improve threat detection performance.Extending the scope of attack log collection through interworking between highly accessible open-source tools can efficiently increase the detection coverage of tactics and techniques used to deal with APT attacks,as defined by MITRE Adversarial Tactics,Techniques,and Common Knowledge(ATT&CK).We implemented an attack environment using an APT attack scenario emulator called Carbanak and analyzed the detection coverage of Google Rapid Response(GRR),an open-source threat detection tool,and Graylog,an open-source log collector.The proposed method expanded the detection coverage against MITRE ATT&CK by approximately 11%compared with that conventional methods.

Application Research on Two-Layer Threat Prediction Model Based on Event Graph

Advanced Persistent Threat(APT)is now the most common network assault.However,the existing threat analysis models cannot simultaneously predict the macro-development trend and micro-propagation path of APT attacks.They cannot provide rapid and accurate early warning and decision responses to the present system state because they are inadequate at deducing the risk evolution rules of network threats.To address the above problems,firstly,this paper constructs the multi-source threat element analysis ontology(MTEAO)by integrating multi-source network security knowledge bases.Subsequently,based on MTEAO,we propose a two-layer threat prediction model(TL-TPM)that combines the knowledge graph and the event graph.The macro-layer of TL-TPM is based on the knowledge graph to derive the propagation path of threats among devices and to correlate threat elements for threat warning and decision-making;The micro-layer ingeniously maps the attack graph onto the event graph and derives the evolution path of attack techniques based on the event graph to improve the explainability of the evolution of threat events.The experiment’s results demonstrate that TL-TPM can completely depict the threat development trend,and the early warning results are more precise and scientific,offering knowledge and guidance for active defense.

Threat Modeling and Application Research Based on Multi-Source Attack and Defense Knowledge

Cyber Threat Intelligence(CTI)is a valuable resource for cybersecurity defense,but it also poses challenges due to its multi-source and heterogeneous nature.Security personnel may be unable to use CTI effectively to understand the condition and trend of a cyberattack and respond promptly.To address these challenges,we propose a novel approach that consists of three steps.First,we construct the attack and defense analysis of the cybersecurity ontology(ADACO)model by integrating multiple cybersecurity databases.Second,we develop the threat evolution prediction algorithm(TEPA),which can automatically detect threats at device nodes,correlate and map multisource threat information,and dynamically infer the threat evolution process.TEPA leverages knowledge graphs to represent comprehensive threat scenarios and achieves better performance in simulated experiments by combining structural and textual features of entities.Third,we design the intelligent defense decision algorithm(IDDA),which can provide intelligent recommendations for security personnel regarding the most suitable defense techniques.IDDA outperforms the baseline methods in the comparative experiment.

Blockchain Security Threats and Collaborative Defense:A Literature Review

As a distributed database,the system security of the blockchain is of great significance to prevent tampering,protect privacy,prevent double spending,and improve credibility.Due to the decentralized and trustless nature of blockchain,the security defense of the blockchain system has become one of the most important measures.This paper comprehensively reviews the research progress of blockchain security threats and collaborative defense,and we first introduce the overview,classification,and threat assessment process of blockchain security threats.Then,we investigate the research status of single-node defense technology and multi-node collaborative defense technology and summarize the blockchain security evaluation indicators and evaluation methods.Finally,we discuss the challenges of blockchain security and future research directions,such as parallel detection and federated learning.This paper aims to stimulate further research and discussion on blockchain security,providing more reliable security guarantees for the use and development of blockchain technology to face changing threats and challenges through continuous updating and improvement of defense technologies.

Automated Machine Learning Enabled Cybersecurity Threat Detection in Internet of Things Environment

Recently,Internet of Things(IoT)devices produces massive quantity of data from distinct sources that get transmitted over public networks.Cybersecurity becomes a challenging issue in the IoT environment where the existence of cyber threats needs to be resolved.The development of automated tools for cyber threat detection and classification using machine learning(ML)and artificial intelligence(AI)tools become essential to accomplish security in the IoT environment.It is needed to minimize security issues related to IoT gadgets effectively.Therefore,this article introduces a new Mayfly optimization(MFO)with regularized extreme learning machine(RELM)model,named MFO-RELM for Cybersecurity Threat Detection and classification in IoT environment.The presented MFORELM technique accomplishes the effectual identification of cybersecurity threats that exist in the IoT environment.For accomplishing this,the MFO-RELM model pre-processes the actual IoT data into a meaningful format.In addition,the RELM model receives the pre-processed data and carries out the classification process.In order to boost the performance of the RELM model,the MFO algorithm has been employed to it.The performance validation of the MFO-RELM model is tested using standard datasets and the results highlighted the better outcomes of the MFO-RELM model under distinct aspects.

Accurate threat hunting in industrial internet of things edge devices

Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT)systems depend on a growing number of edge devices such as sensors,controllers,and robots for data collection,transmission,storage,and processing.Any kind of malicious or abnormal function by each of these devices can jeopardize the security of the entire IIoT.Moreover,they can allow malicious software installed on end nodes to penetrate the network.This paper presents a parallel ensemble model for threat hunting based on anomalies in the behavior of IIoT edge devices.The proposed model is flexible enough to use several state-of-the-art classifiers as the basic learner and efficiently classifies multi-class anomalies using the Multi-class AdaBoost and majority voting.Experimental evaluations using a dataset consisting of multi-source normal records and multi-class anomalies demonstrate that our model outperforms existing approaches in terms of accuracy,F1 score,recall,and precision.

Multiclass Classification for Cyber Threats Detection on Twitter

The advances in technology increase the number of internet systems usage.As a result,cybersecurity issues have become more common.Cyber threats are one of the main problems in the area of cybersecurity.However,detecting cybersecurity threats is not a trivial task and thus is the center of focus for many researchers due to its importance.This study aims to analyze Twitter data to detect cyber threats using a multiclass classification approach.The data is passed through different tasks to prepare it for the analysis.Term Frequency and Inverse Document Frequency(TFIDF)features are extracted to vectorize the cleaned data and several machine learning algorithms are used to classify the Twitter posts into multiple classes of cyber threats.The results are evaluated using different metrics including precision,recall,F-score,and accuracy.This work contributes to the cyber security research area.The experiments revealed the promised results of the analysis using the Random Forest(RF)algorithm with(F-score=81%).This result outperformed the existing studies in the field of cyber threat detection and showed the importance of detecting cyber threats in social media posts.There is a need for more investigation in the field of multiclass classification to achieve more accurate results.In the future,this study suggests applying different data representations for the feature extraction other than TF-IDF such as Word2Vec,and adding a new phase for feature selection to select the optimum features subset to achieve higher accuracy of the detection process.

Survey on Deep Learning Approaches for Detection of Email Security Threat

Emailing is among the cheapest and most easily accessible platforms,and covers every idea of the present century like banking,personal login database,academic information,invitation,marketing,advertisement,social engineering,model creation on cyber-based technologies,etc.The uncontrolled development and easy access to the internet are the reasons for the increased insecurity in email communication.Therefore,this review paper aims to investigate deep learning approaches for detecting the threats associated with e-mail security.This study compiles the literature related to the deep learning methodologies,which are applicable for providing safety in the field of cyber security of email in different organizations.Relevant data were extracted from different research depositories.The paper discusses various solutions for handling these threats.Different challenges and issues are also investigated for e-mail security threats including social engineering,malware,spam,and phishing in the existing solutions to identify the core current problem and set the road for future studies.The review analysis showed that communication media is the common platform for attackers to conduct fraudulent activities via spoofed e-mails and fake websites and this research has combined the merit and demerits of the deep learning approaches adaption in email security threat by the usage of models and technologies.The study highlighted the contrasts of deep learning approaches in detecting email security threats.This review study has set criteria to include studies that deal with at least one of the six machine models in cyber security.

Enhanced Gorilla Troops Optimizer with Deep Learning Enabled Cybersecurity Threat Detection

Recent developments in computer networks and Internet of Things(IoT)have enabled easy access to data.But the government and business sectors face several difficulties in resolving cybersecurity network issues,like novel attacks,hackers,internet criminals,and so on.Presently,malware attacks and software piracy pose serious risks in compromising the security of IoT.They can steal confidential data which results infinancial and reputational losses.The advent of machine learning(ML)and deep learning(DL)models has been employed to accomplish security in the IoT cloud environment.This article pre-sents an Enhanced Artificial Gorilla Troops Optimizer with Deep Learning Enabled Cybersecurity Threat Detection(EAGTODL-CTD)in IoT Cloud Net-works.The presented EAGTODL-CTD model encompasses the identification of the threats in the IoT cloud environment.The proposed EAGTODL-CTD mod-el mainly focuses on the conversion of input binaryfiles to color images,where the malware can be detected using an image classification problem.The EAG-TODL-CTD model pre-processes the input data to transform to a compatible for-mat.For threat detection and classification,cascaded gated recurrent unit(CGRU)model is exploited to determine class labels.Finally,EAGTO approach is employed as a hyperparameter optimizer to tune the CGRU parameters,showing the novelty of our work.The performance evaluation of the EAGTODL-CTD model is assessed on a dataset comprising two class labels namely malignant and benign.The experimental values reported the supremacy of the EAG-TODL-CTD model with increased accuracy of 99.47%.

Chinese Cyber Threat Intelligence Named Entity Recognition via RoBERTa-wwm-RDCNN-CRF

In recent years,cyber attacks have been intensifying and causing great harm to individuals,companies,and countries.The mining of cyber threat intelligence(CTI)can facilitate intelligence integration and serve well in combating cyber attacks.Named Entity Recognition(NER),as a crucial component of text mining,can structure complex CTI text and aid cybersecurity professionals in effectively countering threats.However,current CTI NER research has mainly focused on studying English CTI.In the limited studies conducted on Chinese text,existing models have shown poor performance.To fully utilize the power of Chinese pre-trained language models(PLMs)and conquer the problem of lengthy infrequent English words mixing in the Chinese CTIs,we propose a residual dilated convolutional neural network(RDCNN)with a conditional random field(CRF)based on a robustly optimized bidirectional encoder representation from transformers pre-training approach with whole word masking(RoBERTa-wwm),abbreviated as RoBERTa-wwm-RDCNN-CRF.We are the first to experiment on the relevant open source dataset and achieve an F1-score of 82.35%,which exceeds the common baseline model bidirectional encoder representation from transformers(BERT)-bidirectional long short-term memory(BiLSTM)-CRF in this field by about 19.52%and exceeds the current state-of-the-art model,BERT-RDCNN-CRF,by about 3.53%.In addition,we conducted an ablation study on the encoder part of the model to verify the effectiveness of the proposed model and an in-depth investigation of the PLMs and encoder part of the model to verify the effectiveness of the proposed model.The RoBERTa-wwm-RDCNN-CRF model,the shared pre-processing,and augmentation methods can serve the subsequent fundamental tasks such as cybersecurity information extraction and knowledge graph construction,contributing to important applications in downstream tasks such as intrusion detection and advanced persistent threat(APT)attack detection.